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Chad Pytel
November 3, 2017
- News
Staffing At a Consultancy

As an agile product consultancy, we often have to make adjustments to team sizes to accommodate new clients and optimize current teams. Our current scheduling process gets the job done, but it has it’s problems. We ran a quick experiment to see if we could improve it.
Jason Ramirez
November 3, 2017
- Staffing
- Teams
Ways I've experimented with Design Sprints to make them more sustainable.

I’ve found facilitating a product design sprint really draining for my team and me. Here are a few things that we’ve tried to make them more sustainable.
Kyle Fiedler
November 2, 2017
- Design Sprints
- Product Design
Lucky, an experimental new web framework by thoughtbot

Lucky, a new Crystal web framework built to catch bugs at compile time, run quickly, and help you write maintainable code.
Paul Smith
October 27, 2017
- Lucky
- Crystal
- Web
Our Favorite Events During Startup Week in Austin

Our recap of some of the best events during Austin Starup Week.
Kyle Fiedler
October 26, 2017
- Startup
- Events
- Austin
Bridging Elm and JavaScript with Ports

Elm is strongly-typed; JavaScript is not. Communication between the two is paramount for large applications and ports enable this.
Josh Clayton
October 25, 2017
- Elm
- JavaScript
- Web
factory_bot

factory_girl is becoming factory_bot.
Avielle Wolfe and Josh Clayton
October 24, 2017
- News
- Web
- Rails
- Testing
- RSpec
- Ruby
- Factory Girl
- Factory Bot
Playing with Sockets and Processes in Elixir

We make a small line-oriented TCP socket server to explore how sockets and some manual process management works in Elixir.
Jon Yurek
October 24, 2017
- Elixir
- Sockets
- Processes
Kotlin is Dope And So Are Its Custom Property Delegates

An introduction to Kotlin’s delegate properties and some real life examples.
Amanda Hill
October 23, 2017
- Kotlin
- Android
- Mobile
Testing Random Data in Emails with Bamboo

Testing with Bamboo is easy, and it’s still easy when the email’s content includes random data.
David Bernheisel
October 16, 2017
- Bamboo
- Test
- Email
- Phoenix
- Elixir
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